The young woman nominated for the award comes from a humble background, becoming the first person from her maternal family to enter higher education.
With a degree in Law from the Federal University of Pelotas, a Master's in Criminal Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and a recent approval on Doctorate in Administration from PUCRS, Erlane used scientific research to support the importance of developing technological projects with a social impact: “Cosmos: network for access to justice and university extension”, the result of her Master's dissertation, focused on developing collaboration strategies between universities that develop extension projects based on the right of access to justice, as well as promoting access to information for society; and ‘Gendrify ID’ (GID), a platform in the form of a support network focused on the LGBTQIAPN+ community.
As a result, “Cosmos” has received the following awards:
Awarded Master's Dissertation in the Quality Education Category, at the ODS Summit RS 2024;
Outstanding Dissertation in the Postgraduate Program in Criminal Sciences at PUCRS;
Publication in a book by the academic publishing house Tirant lo Blanch (scheduled for 2025)
In addition, the GID has won awards such as:
Outstanding Project at the 17th Idear Entrepreneurial Tournament at PUCRS;
AGES Outstanding Project;
2nd place in the PUCRS Hangar Program (a program focused on doctoral theses and Erlane was the only master's student).
As a prize from the Hangar Program, the project took part in the Web Summit Rio 2024.
The project was recently selected to take part in Claro's Campus Mobile, based at the University of São Paulo (USP)
As a result of this whole process, Erlane was awarded the PUCRS Outstanding Young Person 2024 Trophy, currently the best private university in Brazil. Also, she was invited to speak at the United Nations headquarters.
